[Current views on pancreatic carcinoma]

The modern methods of diagnosis can detect cancer of pancreas in stage in which possibility of operation is so high. The contribution of mini-invasive surgery is to prepare patient to operate on with success and low risk. We give an account of view to surgical problems with adenocarcinoma of exocrine pancreas which is developed in course of hundred years of surgical practice. We present retrospective study (not closed) of patients with that diagnosis during the last 5 years, complications, algorithm of diagnosis, procedures results.